John Edwards (Kentucky)

John Edwards (1748-1837) was a US Senator from Kentucky from 18 June 1792 to 4 March 1795, preceding Humphrey Marshall. He was a Democratic-Republican Party member.

Biography
John Edwards was born in Stafford County, Virginia in 1748, and he moved to what is now Bourbon County, Kentucky in 1780. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1781 to 1783, in 1785, and in 1786, and he was a part of the committee that determined Kentucky's borders in 1788. In 1792, he was a part of the convention that drafted the first constitution for the new state, and he became one of the state's inaugural US Senators in 1792. He served until 1795, and he went on to serve in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1795 and in the Kentucky Senate from 1796 to 1800. He died in 1837.